Participatory Budgeting
21st November 2008, 3:47 pm
Urban Forum (http://www.urbanforum.org.uk) has produced a briefing on the recently published National Strategy for Participatory Budgeting, which sets out how the government aims to get this approach used in every local authority area by 2012. Pdf, 96KB, http://www.urbanforum.org.uk/pdf_files/participatory%20budgeting%20strategy%202008%2011.pdf
The Participatory Budgeting Unit (http://www.participatorybudgeting.org.uk, a project of Church Action on Poverty) has published ‘Participatory budgeting in the UK: from the grassroots to the national agenda’ (pdf, 119K) looking at the involvement of citizens in public spending decisions. (Source: e-government bulletin)